This tutorial provides a method of formatting landscape pages for Thesis… · 2015-10-28 · d. Go...
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Landscape Page Formatting
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This tutorial provides a method of formatting landscape pages for Thesis/Dissertations:
Horizontal/Landscape Orientation, in which the page or ientation, margins, and page number
position are adjusted (see page 2).
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1. Insert Section Breaks
a. Place cursor after the last sentence on
the page before the landscape page.
b. Insert a Next Page section break:
Go to Page Layout > Breaks > Next
Page.
c. Insert another Next Page section
break at the end of the landscape
page.
Note: If you have more than one land-
scape pages, do this on the last landscape
page.
2. Change page orientation to
Landscape:
a. Place cursor in middle of land-
scape page.
b. Go to Page Layout > Orientation
> Landscape.
3. Set margins:
Top = 1.5”
Bottom = 1”
Left = 1.”
Right = 1”
Footer = 1”
Horizontal/Landscape Orientation
1a. Place cursor here
1b. Insert section break
1c. Place cursor here & insert section break
2. Orientation > Landscape
3. Set margins
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4. Remove existing page
number:
a. Double click on landscaped
page number to activate Header
& Footer Tools menu
b. Uncheck “Link to Previous.”
Do this for both the footer
AND the header.
c. Go to the next non-landscape
page and repeat: Uncheck
“Link to Previous.” Do this for
both the footer AND header.
(This ensures that subsequent
pages’ are not affected when
landscape page is modified)
d. Go back to Landscape page.
Highlight page number, and
“DELETE” or
“BACKSPACE.”
5. Insert page number in
Left Margin:
Go to Page Number > Page
Margins > Large left.
6a. Change font and font size
6b. Under Line Spacing Options, select 1.0,
and “Remove Space After Paragraph”
4a. Double click page number to activate Header & Footer Tools
6. Format page number
a. Select page #, change font to
Times New Roman 12 pt. or
whichever font is being used
throughout your manuscript
b. Under the Line Spacing Op-
tions, select 1.0, and select
“Remove space after para-
graph.”
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6. Format Page number continued….
c. Under the Format tab menu, open the
Shape Styles options (click on ar row in
bottom right corner).
d. Go to Text Box
e. Check Resize Shape to fit text
f. Change text direction to Rotate 90 degrees.
Click Close.
g. Under the Format tab menu, Go to Position,
then More Layout Options
If “Position” is grayed out, click outside the textbox,
then click back on it.
g. Change Horizontal to:
Absolute Position: 1”
To the right of: Page
i. Change Vertical to:
Alignment: Centered
Relative to: margin
6c. Under Shapes Styles,
click arrow in bottom right
6d. Click Text Box
6e. Check Resize shape to fit text
6f. Change Text Direction to Rotate 90°
6g. Click Position, then
More Layout Options
6h. Horizontal: Absolute Position, 1”,
to the right of Page
6i. Vertical: Alignment, centered,
relative to margin
Note: For some versions of
Word, step 6f may not work to rotate text box.
Alternative:
Under Format tab, Use drop-down menu under
Text Direction, Set to Rotate 90°
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Appearance of finished page: